Façade of the Old Church School, Butts Hill

Cornelia Parker, one of Britain’s most respected artists, is best known for her powerful transformations of found objects and her fascination with the relationship between destruction and creation. Her new commission responds to Frome’s strong history of non-conformist worship and the recent death of her parents. Parker’s work will fuse Philip Larkin’s infamous poem This Be The Verse, with its irreverent but incisive analysis of family dysfunction, with the ornamental skills of the stonemason to produce a meditation on family and personal responsibility that is as humorous and irreverent as it is thought-provoking.

With thanks to the Society of Authors, as the literary representative of the estate of Philip Larkin.

This work contains language that may be unsuitable for children.

Venue Partner:	Cornelia Parker’s work has been produced and sponsored by